{"id":23,"date":"2010-11-29T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/let-there-be-light-in-rural-africa-evans-wadongo-cnn-hero.html"},"modified":"2010-11-29T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:51:34","slug":"let-there-be-light-in-rural-africa-evans-wadongo-cnn-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/let-there-be-light-in-rural-africa-evans-wadongo-cnn-hero.html","title":{"rendered":"Let There Be Light in Rural Africa: Evans Wadongo, CNN Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"19753\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/wadongo.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wadongo.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/wadongo-thumb-200x150-19753.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/form>\n<div>One of the CNN heroes caught my attention this week. &nbsp;Evans Wadongo is a young Kenyan who invented a simple solar powered lantern. &nbsp;In villages without electricity, light is a luxury. &nbsp; Children study by candlelight or kerosene lantern&#8211;if they are lucky enough to have money for fuel. &nbsp;Otherwise, they may stop studying and drop out of school. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Wadongo&#8217;s solar powered light not only allows children to study, it also saves families precious dollars to buy food and other necessities. &nbsp;He builds the lights in his shop and provides them for free to rural communities. &nbsp;Watch Evans explain how he was inspired to create the lanterns:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=living\/2010\/02\/11\/cnnheroes.wadongo.profile.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=living\/2010\/02\/11\/cnnheroes.wadongo.profile.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"416\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the CNN heroes caught my attention this week. &nbsp;Evans Wadongo is a young Kenyan who invented a simple solar powered lantern. &nbsp;In villages without electricity, light is a luxury. &nbsp; Children study by candlelight or kerosene lantern&#8211;if they are lucky enough to have money for fuel. &nbsp;Otherwise, they may stop studying and drop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn-hero","tag-evans-wadongo","tag-solar-powered-lanterns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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